<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Hi all.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Making networking run on Linux desktops has always been IMO one of the reasons why it's not caught on. Stuff just shouldn't be this hard.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I have a RPi Model B running current Raspian, and a wifi dongle that claims to run on it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">`lsusb` reports it as </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)"><font face="monospace, monospace">Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter</font></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394">and `usb-devices` says:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#660000" face="monospace, monospace">T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 4 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
<br>D: Ver= 2.01 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
<br>P: Vendor=148f ProdID=7601 Rev=00.00
<br>S: Manufacturer=MediaTek
<br>S: Product=802.11 n WLAN
<br>S: SerialNumber=1.0
<br>C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=160mA
<br>I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 8 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#660000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Now... even though it says "Driver=(none)" on that last line, `lsmod` reports:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace"><font color="#660000">Module Size Used by </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace"><font color="#660000">[...]<br></font><font color="#660000" style="background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">mt7601u 86636 0
</font><br><font color="#660000" style="background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">mac80211 650707 1 mt7601u
</font><br><font color="#660000" style="background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">cfg80211 525998 2 mac80211,mt7601u </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace"><font color="#660000">[...]<br>snd_hwdep 6479 1 snd_usb_audio
</font><br><font color="#660000">videodev 177702 3 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core,videobuf2_v4l2
</font><br><font color="#660000">snd_usbmidi_lib 22479 1 snd_usb_audio
</font><br><font color="#660000">snd_rawmidi 23727 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
</font><br><font color="#660000">media 28994 2 uvcvideo,videodev
</font><br><font color="#660000">rfkill 21373 2 cfg80211
</font><br><font color="#660000">snd_seq_device 5266 1 snd_rawmidi
</font><br><font color="#660000">snd_bcm2835 23131 0
</font><br><font color="#660000">snd_pcm 97825 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_bcm2835
</font><br><font color="#660000">snd_timer 22706 1 snd_pcm
</font><br><font color="#660000">snd 68784 8 snd_hwdep,snd_usb_audio,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_seq_device,snd_bcm2835,snd_pcm
</font><br><font color="#660000">bcm2835_gpiomem 3791 0
</font><br><font color="#660000">uio_pdrv_genirq 3718 0
</font><br><font color="#660000">uio 10166 1 uio_pdrv_genirq
</font><br><font color="#660000">fixed 3029 0
</font><br><font color="#660000">ip_tables 12512 0
</font><br><font color="#660000">x_tables 20921 1 ip_tables
</font><br><font color="#660000">ipv6 384391 18</font><br>
<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="tahoma, sans-serif">So there is a module called mt7201u being loaded yet it's not seen as the associated driver to this card in usb-devices and it's definitely not showing in ifconfig or iwconfig.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Any suggestions on what I'm missing is greatly appreciated.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch</div><div style="text-align:left">Toronto, Canada</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Em: evan at telly dot org</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Sk: evanleibovitch</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Tw: el56</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div>
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